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r68081 | tarek.ziade | 2008-12-31 00:03:41 +0100 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line
Fixed #4702: Throwing DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError under win32 if MSVC is not found
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Library
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+- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
+ no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
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- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.